the market in the morning

-Photoshop CS2
-Done over a 4 day period. I have no idea how many hours haha.
-for the anotheratlantis challenge, prompt #57

This is possibly the most elaborate picture I've done to date. Also, look! New coloring style!

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notes:
"Thank you"s and "ILUomgg"s to arboretum, ~enduro, pentapus, and sheafrotherdon for hand-holding, encouragement, and much-needed critiquing! Words cannot express my grateful feelings, especially to Val, without whom this thing probably wouldn't have had color! ♥

This was drawn/traced over a collage-like picture made from official SGA pictures and a "No Reservations" photo. Color-wise, only the hanging pants on the left side are from the original N.R. photo, as I didn't have the right pans. Everything else are from photos of my own pots/pans or blocks of color Gaussian-blurred. John has Aaron Eckhart's body. *sheepish look*

prompt:
Rodney McKay is the diva head chef of a trendy restaurant known for its avant-garde, citrus-free menu. After a disasterous and public confrontation with a food critic, his manager/agent Elizabeth Weir insists that he has to do something to mend his public image, and threatens to book him on a Food Network special.

To avoid that horror, Rodney ends up giving a series of demonstrations at a local cooking school and meets John Sheppard--a self-taught cook trying to start his own pizzeria/sushi bar/taco stand/thing. John's got no discipline, decidedly California sensibilities, and a pastry chef named Ronon Dex. He's also got the audacity to challenge Rodney to a little friendly "competition:" they'll swap restaurants for a set period of time, with free reign to make over the menus, and whoever gets the better reviews (from a critic Rodney hasn't insulted recently) gets bragging rights and a full-page newspaper ad paid for by the loser.

Elizabeth thinks it's a charming idea, but Rodney is just out to prove that his classical cuisine reigns supreme. Can both restaurants survive the swap?